Proposal: Don't show applications in the software center with XPM icons

[Reindl Harald]

Am 07.03.2014 20:42, schrieb Przemek Klosowski:
> On 03/07/2014 11:21 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> On 7 March 2014 14:08, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org> wrote:
>>> Microsoft, Apple, and Google set requirements that apps must follow if
>>> they want to appear in the software center in order to ensure a good
>>> user experience.
>> This is something I absolutely want to do. We already rate the
>> applications in GNOME 3.12 depending on how many positive attributes
>> they have (the star ratings) and I think it's fine to set a minimum
>> standard and slowly raise the bar over time. Showing 500 applications
>> that hits some absolute minimum level is much better than showing an
>> additional 500 basically crap applications.
>>
> This decision should belong to the user, though. It's one thing to default to showing only five-star applications
> (GTK2, icon with transparency, AppData with translations) while allowing the user to widen the criteria to show
> more applications. It is quite another thing to make an unilateral decision to take out an entire class that fails
> to satisfy some arbitrary requirement.
> 
> I do realize that the app installer becomes more complex, with the 'number of stars' selector, and having to make
> up application data that the app itself failed to provide, but I think cost/benefit justifies that effort.
> 
> I feel old and cranky arguing this point but the app markets for portable devices are a _counterexample_ to a
> thesis that pretty metadata guarantees better application quality. At least on portable devices the old-line stuff
> simply does not install so it is irrelevant; on Fedora it can be installed and would be useful to someone, if only
> they can discover its existence when using the pretty, default application installer. As another data point, I just
> introduced 'units' to another person that missed it in spite of being in the business of scientific
> data/calculations. Fedora should make it easier, not more difficult, for people to discover such useful things.

*exactly* my point and even if i do not use any GUI for install/update
packages i care about because others should have the same options as
i had many years ago to find their *alternative* to Windows/OSX

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